Primate of Canada

The Primate Visits Kootenay

Primate’s visit to Kootenay Diocese

Holy Week 2024    

Archbishop Lynne McNaughton: Message Approaching SYNOD

Anglican Diocese of Kootenay SYNOD | May 23 – 26   Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good deeds, not ...

Support and Encouragement

In the early 2000s, all across North America, a new conversation about church was brewing. Younger people from a variety of denominational streams were waking ...

Mission of Love

Recently, a Friday (12:15) Eucharist at the Cathedral drew us into the life of Bishop Edward King (1825-1910). Before becoming Bishop of Lincoln, King taught ...
Heather Karabelas

Cultivate Your Call

On May 1, 2024, I celebrated my 20th anniversary of ordination to the Diaconate. It seems important to share some autobiographical details in the hopes ...
Kevin Arndt

A Hatful of Change

The story is told about a woman who was walking on a stormy beach with her husband when a great wave fell onto the shore ...

Making Sense of Scripture Readings

Have you ever read or listened to a scripture passage that was difficult to understand? I certainly have, but over the years I have developed ...

A Poem

My Hand Out of the dust You created me So shall my body praise You Working in unity with my Creator I will go beyond ...

Pierre Teihard de Chardin

(1881-1955) Controversial Visionary and Mystic In his book Everything Ablaze, Meditating on the Mystical Vision of Teilhard de Chardin (Paulist Press, 2017), David Richo writes ...

Singing Through These Changing Times

Witness and Dialogue Part 4 of 5 — Synthesis

Jesus calls us to carry his good news to the farthest comers of the world, making disciples, “among all nations.” In every age, his people ...

Around About the Diocese May 2024

Lighting the Paschal Candle, Holy Trinity, Grand Forks

Colonies of Heaven

Another World Possible

A few weeks ago, meeting with colleagues from across the country about developing the church’s capacity to participate in God’s mission, our discussion took a ...

Innocent Wonder

When my granddaughter was 4 years old, her mother was helping her get ready for bed one evening. My granddaughter was being her usual pixelated ...

Report on Anglican Deacons Canada Conference 2024

Servant’s Heart — from the desk of a deacon Anglican Deacons Canada in Partnership with Deacons of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada gathered to ...

Ode to First Responders

“Code Yellow! Lockdown!” I can’t say how often I heard this swift exclamation over the prison PA system while serving as Chaplain at the Vancouver ...

Gordon Light: Inside the Mind of a Songwriter

I have had the privilege of knowing Gordon Light for the last 47 years starting at St. Luke’s Anglican Church in Winnipeg. Back then, he ...

Saints, Souls, Grief, Joy

Autumn in the Kootenays has brought an abundance of fruit, with cooler temperatures, and a crispness to the air. The waters of Kootenay Lake no ...

The Dancing Saints — St Gregory of Nyssa

When living in Marin County in California, I had the opportunity to visit St Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church in San Francisco. There are many ...

40th Anniversary, St John the Evangelist, Salmon Arm

Timeline Cards For the 40th Anniversary of the Consecration of St. John’s, Salmon Arm Salmon Arm began as a farming hamlet centred on Hedgeman’s Corners ...
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